Passage for Trumpet

My friend from Brooklyn Bibi was here all weekend--it was nice to spend quality time with an old friend--she and Andrea took me in during a time in my life where I was homeless, I will always be in their debt. . . You could not ask for a better person--she works @ the Strand and had Chandler and Bukowski for me. . .what a cure all!

Didn't really do much just bought tons of movies, listened to music and watched the twilight zone. I love the twilight zone--I got a dvd with the episode "Passage for Trumpet"--one of the greatest monologues in tv history is delivered by Jack Klugman at the story's begining. If you have not seen it--shame. . . "jewled sound" indeed! I forget how much of an impact watching the twilight zone actually had on me--makes me want to dress in a suit and tie everyday of my life. Beyond that nonsenese comment, the consolidation of story and pace that occured in each episode was amazing. To think that there was a time that network tv offered such poetry in the language of their dramas is almost unbelievable in a world of the OC and Fear Factor. Granted, there are great tv dramas; however, this was a thirty minute antholgy--different stories, different actors, different language every week--36 episode seasons! I was 12 when I first watched the twilight zone on tv--WPIX out of NYC used to do a 24 hour marathon on new years and the fourth of july. i would tape it and watch these vids until the picture would ghost and the vcr consumed the footage. . .

"Passage for trumpet" was the second twilight zone episode i ever saw. it introduced me to jazz and it gave me a new language for my burgeoning passions--music and poetry. . .

The Twilight Zone may also explain why I'm so damn odd, but I don't think I can sue anyone over not getting a date until I was 17. Then again, that lady with the McDonnald's coffee. . . (see also Dennis Leary's rant about Dan Fogelberg and James Taylor)

today's soundtrack: R.E.M. document/dead letter office/green; big star columbia; ryan adams heartbreaker; hank williams 24 greatest hits; chamberlain fates got a driver; less than jake hello rockview; beatles s/t; stan getz verve jazz masters; son volt trace;